Publishing agreement—checklist

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Checklists

Publishing agreement—checklist

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Checklists

How to use this Checklist

This Checklist is designed to highlight issues commonly arising during the negotiation and drafting of a publishing agreement. For a publishing agreement, see Precedent: Publishing agreement—pro-publisher.

For further information on issues raised by this Checklist, see Practice Notes:

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Assigning intellectual property rights
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Licensing intellectual property rights

This Checklist can also, where appropriate, form the basis of a simple non-binding heads of terms. For guidance on how to do this, see Precedent: Heads of terms—commercial contracts.

The third column can be used to record observations or comments as the Checklist is worked through.

Checklist schedule for proposed publishing agreement

Checklist	Further information	Notes (if any)
Parties
☐ Confirm each party’s legal status and consider whether any third parties (such as group affiliates) will benefit from the proposed agreement.
Commencement, duration and termination
☐ Confirm the commencement or effective date.
☐ Confirm whether the proposed agreement will be for the full term of copyright in the work or for a shorter period. Identify notice periods.
☐ Confirm the nature of any early termination

Jurisdiction(s):

United Kingdom

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